The Colombian manufacturing industry has low levels of innovation, this may be due to factors such as low capacity to innovate, learn and adapt to the environment, among which there may be a relationship that is little studied. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to approach the joint influence of learning and adaptation capacity on the capacity to innovate in Colombian industrial companies. For this, 1,571 companies registered in the Industrial Technological Development and Innovation Survey 2017-2018 were analyzed, through a non-experimental, cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational-causal design, using correlation and logit regression models. The main results allow us to understand that individually the capacity for learning and adaptation positively influence the probability of developing the capacity for innovation. The study manages to conclude that the joint existence of these two dynamic capacities partially enhances the development of the capacity for innovation.